January 2012 Newsletter

Lots of people are getting good results using HDRi backgrounds for trees, skies, buildings and even interiors of buildings.

There is a Rotation setting on HDRi skies and backgrounds which lets you rotate the HDRi. But it can require multiple steps to get the right rotation to match your model - since you often have to rotate the HDRI, re-render, view the result, and repeat until you get what you want.

Rich has added a new feature to IRender nXt and created a new video:
Rotating HDRi
which make this much easier.
You just drag the background with your mouse until you see what you want - then re-render to get the full effects of illumination, rotation, etc.

If your version of IRender nXt is more than 12 months old, you should renew it in order to be able to use the latest versions. When you renew your license, you can use all new versions released over the next 12 months.